[Gllug] LDAP

[Bruce Richardson]

On 9/24/01, 4:22:46 PM, Simon Stewart <sms at lateral.net> wrote regarding Re: 
[Gllug] LDAP:


> That would be one way of solving the problem of having to create a new
> directory every time, and possibly the sanest, though I fear that for
> consistancy's sake[1], I might be forced to use SMB mounts (*shudder*)
> cos this is a nice heterogenous environment with Macs (OS 9 and X),
> Win32 boxen, Linux and BSD machines.

Go for Samba 2.2, then.  Not only does winbind unify the management of 
unix and SMB domain accounts but it can use an LDAP database as a 
backend.

You may want to enquire on the samba mailing list to find the most recent 
version on which these two functions both work reliably.

-- 

Bruce

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